Quote:Perhaps you would care to explain to me how not damaging the revenue stream of existing 0845 dial up ISPs serves the interests of uk citizens and consumers? Especially when it also causes those same consumers to have to pay far more to make ordinary voice calls on 0845 numbers to people like the Inland Revenue and the local police forces for many years to come.
Wasn't a new number range set up specifically to allow chargeable, Dial Up, Internet Access ? Wasn't it 0844... ? If memory serves, didn't even BTInternet use this initially. But then a number of ISPs switched to using 0845. 0845 was specifically NOT set up for providing Internet access. Any operators who may have ventured to use it for such, however unwittingly, should bear the consequences.
So a number of users may be inconvenienced by having to change their Dialler numbers, if these ISPs are 'forced' to change their 0845 access number, by losing revenue share. Anyone who doesn't know how to check/change their dialler number is already vulnerable to the scamsters who'll do it without their knowledge.
Changing the Dial-Up access numbers would be a marvellous opportunity to educate the users for their own protection, as well as no doubt leveraging a lot of them off -dialup and onto broadband.
I completely fail to see any credible reasoning to omit 0845 numbers from this review. I can just envisage the subsequent surge in demand for them ... as scamsters scurry for this last unregulated rock to hide under.